Submitting material for publication

NB: ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE MADE USING EDITORIAL MANAGER (SEE BELOW)

Barry Loveday
Reader in Criminal Justice, University of Portsmouth,

Book reviews should be sent to:

Zoe James
University of Plymouth,

Presentation & style information

Manuscripts may be submitted to Police Journal ONLY through Editorial Manager (www.editorialmanager.com/pj): Submissions by email outside Editorial Manager are discouraged and hard-copy (paper) submissions will not be accepted.

You may, after submission, use the Editorial Manager site to check the progress of your submission, simply log in and follow the links.

On receipt, each article is assigned an identifying number which will be used throughout the review/ revision/ publication process.

You will receive a notification of that number shortly after submission. In the unlikely event that you do not receive an email containing that number within 7 days of submission, please contact the editor as a matter of urgency.

Authors should prepare, as separate items, the following files: A Cover sheet; A Summary (max 250 words); The Main Manuscript; All Tables (optional); All figures (optional); All Plates/Photographs (optional). Each of the forgoing will require separate upload during the submission process. Full submission instructions will be found at http://www.editorialmanager.com/pj/guidelines.html

Endnotes

Endnotes should be collated at the end of the article. End notes should be collated at the end of the article. End notes to the text should be designated as 1, 2, 3 etc. and follow any closing punctuation, e.g.
…limitations are possible.¹

References and bibliography

The Harvard system is used. Examples are:

Jones, A. and Smith, B. (1999) 'Crime Prevention' British Journal of Criminology 20: 136.

Lloyd, F. (1998) Community Policing, 2 edn. London: Blackstone, 354.

Williams, S. (2000) 'Police Shooting Behaviour' in Hogg, C. (ed.), Police Use of Deadly Force. London: Butterworths, 687.

References in the text should appear in ascending year order. An ampersand should be used in a list of author names in the text, for example:

(Smith, C. & Wilton, D., 1997)

But the word 'and' should be used in the reference list.

Cases

Cases should be cited in the following forms:

Quick v Taff-Ely Borough Council [1986] QB 809

Case 102/79 Commission v Belgium [1980] ECR 1473

or

Case C-337/89 Commission v UK [1992] ECR I-1613

If specific pages are referred to:

Quick v Taff-Ely Borough Council [1986] QB 809 at 811

No full stops should be used in the journal abbreviation, e.g. All ER, WLR, EGLR etc.

Quotations

Quotations within the text should use single quotation marks and quotations within quotations use double quotation marks. If quotations are three lines or more they should be separated out from the rest of the text and should not be enclosed by quotation marks.

Copyright

It is a condition of publication in The Police Journal that authors assign copyright to Vathek Publishing. In assigning copyright, authors may use their own materials provided that The Police Journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication, and Vathek Publishing is notified in writing in advance.